EDITORIAL
Art is not a stockpile
Listening to a work, opening an archive, using data: why we should distinguish more carefully between the things we are entitled to ask of art.
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The federal and state governments want to turn cultural data into AI infrastructure. Yet the policy outline leaves key questions unanswered: who decides how the data are used, who funds digitisation — and how will creative practitioners be involved?
READ THE BACKGROUNDListening to a work, opening an archive, using data: why we should distinguish more carefully between the things we are entitled to ask of art.
→What remains after a premiere, an award or a temporary exhibition is decided behind the scenes. That is where cultural policy should look more closely.
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